Sunday, February 04, 2007

Human peruvian rabies transmitted by vamps.

11 children younger than 6 yearscoming from native communities of the north forest of Peru (Huambiza-Aguaruna. County of Condorcanqui), next to the frontier with Ecuador died from rabies after being bitten by bat-vampires (Chyróptera), possibly of the species: Desmodus rotundus. Luis Suárez, general director of the department of Epidemiology of the Ministry of Health of Peru, said to Reuters that was about 2 buds happened in different places. In the last 2 months a total of 1.101people were bitten in this area, having received most their respective antirábic vaccines coming from Argentina and Ecuador. The vampires--that only live in Latin America-- consume bovine or human blood when they are sleeping. At the moment 2.500 people (of a total of 10 000) are exposed to this type of bites in amazon rural peruvians areas. The hematophages vampires bite to humans, when they opened new agricultural rural frontiers, occur retirement of their livestock, vulnerable housings persist, there are little access to services of health and small amazonic towns are inhabited by humans.